Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch
Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.
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It's not a free lunch. It's just your taxes going to something you actually benefit from.
No shit. It literally says where the money that pays for it comes from right in the headline.
I think the point of the comment was that in the last few decades the rhetoric has been: "Taxes bad" "Government provides free bus passes to underprivileged people" Always divorcing taxes from their positive effects on society. Maybe they were trying to fight that by directly uniting the fact that the government is just a coordinator, collecting taxes and using it to buy lunches for kids.
"4% tax on millionaires pays for breakfasts and lunches for all school children" unlike the above example, is a sentence that reminds people that taxes are what provides these many positive social benefits they recieve, not "the government", not "for free", and that taxes aren't always "bad".
Or maybe I'm projecting!
Yeah but le redditor needs to show us how much smarts he is.
Of course it is free for the children.
Which I'm ok with
"Nothing is free. Free isn't actually a word!"
So you're implying that people regularly make $1,000,000 in annual income by working? Only about 150,000 people in the US make that much. It's their money.
Kids don't pay taxes. It's a free lunch.
This comment is just an extreme lack of understanding of any tax system there is, which is wild.
Something that is free for one person will necessarily cost money for another. But for the kids, it's free.
For what it's worth, I didn't think you believed in free lunch.
Ok?
Imagine being this fucking pedantic. This place is legit reddit 2.0 and that's a bad thing.
This comment is just an extreme lack of understanding of millionaires
For the children and the families of the children, it is free
I can't believe you have the upvoted comment.
This comment is written in an infuriating, snarky, trendy, know it all, gen-z style. Please delete it, delete lemmy and actually delete your phone too. The internet's everyday users will thank you for generations to come.
Your first sentence describes your own comment.
Every time you complain, I will post a meme you wouldn't understand and a comment mocking your boomer ass.
Most of everything is free for kids. What's your point?